Thread: Can a popular novel be badly written?
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Old 01-12-2011, 05:03 PM   #190
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post
In SF, a ground rule is that you can speculate all you want about stuff we haven't discovered yet, but you have to get what we do know right. So the Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs are still popular, but considered science fantasy these days. We are well aware the Mars he postulates doesn't exist. As SF, Burrough's Mars books fail because we know better.
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